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41. |  By: Sheran Gunasekera Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 12-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Android Apps Security
Android Apps Security provides guiding principles for how to best design and develop Android apps with security in mind. It explores concepts that can be used to secure apps and how developers can use and incorporate these security features into their apps.
This book will provide developers with the information they need to design useful, high-performing, and secure apps that expose end-users to as little risk as possible.
Overview of Android OS versions, features, architecture and security.
Detailed examination of areas where attacks on applications can take place and what...
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42. |  Deficit: Why Should I Care?, Second Edition By: Marie Bussing-Burks Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 31-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 25-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Deficit: Why Should I Care?, Second Edition
At the turn of this century, the American national debt stood at just under $6 trillion and the deficit at a "mere" $86 billion. Today, the national debt has topped $15 trillion, and the yearly deficit for 2012 is projected at a whopping $1.2 trillion. This new, second edition of Deficits: Why Should I Care? updates all the statistics, charts, and forecasts, while adding a new chapter on how global economies now, for better or worse, affect the U.S. debt and the annual budget deficit. It also includes a new appendix detailing how the U.S. political parties view the debt issue.
According...
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43. |  CSS for Windows 8 App Development By: Jeremy Foster Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 13-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: CSS for Windows 8 App Development
CSS for Windows 8 App Development is your learning guide for CSS – the language of great Windows 8-style apps. Learn the built-in styles that make the built-in controls shine, how to define them, and how to use CSS to give your custom app assets that beautiful Modern UI style.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the clear standard for styling web applications, and with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript now powering apps on Windows 8, it's the clear standard there as well. CSS is a powerful styling and layout language that greatly simplifies the selection of page elements and their visual display,...
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44. |  Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach By: John Clarke Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Oracle Exadata Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Oracle Exadata Recipes takes an example-based, problem/solution approach in showing how to size, install, configure, manage, monitor, optimize, and migrate Oracle database workloads on and to the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Whether you're an Oracle Database administrator, Unix/Linux administrator, storage administrator, network administrator, or Oracle developer, Oracle Exadata Recipes provides effective and proven solutions to accomplish a wide variety of tasks on the Exadata Database Machine. You can feel confident using the reliable solutions that are demonstrated in this book in...
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45. |  By: Michael Mayberry Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: WinRT Revealed
Windows 8 application development is an exciting topic these days. Windows 8 introduces WinRT, the API for accessing the operating system and the underlying hardware where Metro applications run. WinRT can be accessed through multiple development languages, including C++, .NET languages and JavaScript. Developers from all backgrounds can use their skills to build beautiful and fast Windows 8 applications.
Author Michael Mayberry takes you through a quick overview of this new addition in WinRT Revealed and will get you started quickly in developing Windows 8 applications in this new...
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46. |  Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy By: Kevin Mellyn Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 20-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 22-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy
"I would sleep better if I knew that Bernanke, Geithner, Bachus, Sen. Tim Johnson, Obama and Romney all kept dog-eared copies of Kevin Mellyn's Broken Markets on their nightstands. . . . Mellyn's work is a fascinating, important, and eminently good read and should inform the debate on overhauling the U.S. and global financial regulatory systems and sustainable macro fiscal and monetary policy."
--Eric Grover, in his review of Broken Markets in The American Banker
Broken Markets allows the intelligent non-specialist to understand and navigate the ongoing worldwide aftermath of the 2008...
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47. |  SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes: Solutions for Integration Services and Other ETL Tools By: Adam Aspin Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 16-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 19-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes: Solutions for Integration Services and Other ETL Tools
SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes provides focused and practical solutions to real world problems of data integration. Need to import data into SQL Server from an outside source? Need to export data and send it to another system? SQL Server 2012 Data Integration Recipes has your back. You'll find solutions for importing from Microsoft Office data stores such as Excel and Access, from text files such as CSV files, from XML, from other database brands such as Oracle and MySQL, and even from other SQL Server databases. You'll learn techniques for managing metadata, transforming data to...
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48. |  Pro WPF 4.5 in VB: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5 By: Matthew MacDonald Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 15-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro WPF 4.5 in VB: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4.5
Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides you with a development framework for building high-quality user experiences for the Windows operating system. It blends together rich content from a wide range of sources and allows you unparalleled access to the processing power of your Windows computer.
Pro WPF 4.5 in VB provides a thorough, authoritative guide to how WPF really works. Packed with no-nonsense examples and practical advice you'll learn everything you need to know in order to use WPF in a professional setting. The book begins by building a firm foundation of...
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49. |  Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions By: Brett Stern Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 17-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 15-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions
Inventors at Work: The Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions is a collection of interviews with inventors of famous products, innovations, and technologies that have made life easier or even changed the way we live. All of these scientists, engineers, wild-eyed geniuses, and amateur technologists have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of that singular Eureka! moment in their laboratories or garages. Each has altered the modern world as we know it in some significant way.
The conversations will show budding tinkerers, professional inventors, educators, and onlookers how the top...
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50. |  By: James A. Bach; Robert G. Werner Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 23-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 14-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The H-1B visa is the gateway for the world's best and brightest to live and work in the United States as IT professionals, engineers, scientists, professors, doctors, nurses, and researchers. How to Secure Your H-1B Visa guides employees and employers alike through the maze of H-1B laws, policies, and procedures. This road map lays out the whole H-1B process from petition to visa to status maintenance to visa extension and, ultimately, to permanent residence in the US for you and your family. It shows you step by step exactly how the H-1B process divides up between the employer and...
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51. |  ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish By: Jamie Kurtz Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 09-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish
This one hundred page book focuses exclusively on how you can best use the ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework to build world-class REST services using the Web API. It sets aside much of what the ASP.NET MVC Framework can do, and focuses exclusively on how the Web API can help you build web services. You will not find any help on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, or jQuery. Nor will you find any help on the Razor view engine, HTML Helpers, or model binding. If you need this information then Pro ASP.NET MVC 4 is your perfect book.
ASP.NET MVC 4 and the Web API: Building a REST Service from Start to Finish helps...
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52. |  By: Bayer White Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 19-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 29-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro WF 4.5
In Pro WF 4.5, you'll find the insight and direction for understanding how to build workflows using WF 4.5 and host them as long-running services using Microsoft's Windows Server, for on-premises work, and Azure AppFabric, for hosting workflows in the cloud.
With the concept of cloud computing using Windows Azure and the maturity of Windows Server technology, workflow services can be hosted with first-class service monitoring with less overhead from a developer's perspective. Building workflows in a declarative fashion, and hosting them as services, is a natural way for building business...
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53. |  Beginning iOS 6 Games Development By: Lucas Jordan Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Beginning iOS 6 Games Development
Game apps on iPhone and now The New iPad remain one of the most popular type of apps in the Apple iTunes App Store. Does Angry Birds ring a bell? Now, you can learn to build game apps for the iPhone 5 and The New iPad using the new iOS 6 SDK.
Beginning iOS 6 Games Development provides a clear path for you to learn and create iPhone and iPad game apps using the iOS 6 SDK platform. You'll learn how to use the core classes to create rich and dynamic games apps, including graphics, animations, and sound. The latest version of Xcode 4.5 will be used in parts of the book to guide you along the...
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54. |  Practical 3D Printers: The Science and Art of 3D Printing By: Brian Evans Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 29-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical 3D Printers: The Science and Art of 3D Printing
Desktop or DIY 3D printers are devices you can either buy preassembled as a kit, or build from a collection of parts to design and print physical objects including replacement household parts, custom toys, and even art, science, or engineering projects. Maybe you have one, or maybe you're thinking about buying or building one.
Practical 3D Printers takes you beyond how to build a 3D printer, to calibrating, customizing, and creating amazing models, including 3D printed text, a warship model, a robot platform, windup toys, and arcade-inspired alien invaders. You'll learn about the...
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55. |  More iOS 6 Development: Further Explorations of the iOS SDK By: David Mark; Alex Horovitz; Kevin Kim; Jeff LaMarche Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 27-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 24-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: More iOS 6 Development: Further Explorations of the iOS SDK
Interested in iPhone and iPad apps development? Want to learn more? Whether you're a self-taught iPhone and iPad apps development genius or have just made your way through the pages of Beginning iOS 6 Development, we have the perfect book for you.
More iOS 6 Development: Further Explorations of the iOS SDK digs deeper into Apple's latest iOS 6 SDK. Bestselling authors Dave Mark, Alex Horovitz, Kevin Kim and Jeff LaMarche explain concepts as only they can—covering topics like Core Data, peer-to-peer networking using GameKit and network streams, working with data from the web, MapKit,...
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56. |  By: Charles Bell Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 19-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 22-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Expert MySQL, Second Edition
Expert MySQL is the leading reference for learning, understanding, and extending the MySQL server. It unlocks the full promise of open source by showing how to modify the code, create your own storage engine, build your own authentication plugins, and even add your own functions and commands to the SQL language. No other book provides the level of detail or the extensive examples of the inner workings of MySQL that have taken engineers years to master. Expert MySQL is a must have book for all systems integrators, engineers, and software developers working with the MySQL server...
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57. |  When to Hire—or Not Hire—a Consultant: Getting Your Money's Worth from Consulting Relationships By: Linda M. Orr; Dave J. Orr Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 16-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 21-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: When to Hire—or Not Hire—a Consultant: Getting Your Money's Worth from Consulting Relationships
When to Hire—or Not Hire—a Consultant:Getting Your Money's Worth from Consulting Relationships is a hands-on, practical guide for anyone thinking about hiring a consultant to set strategy, solve problems, increase profits or revenue, develop new products, open new markets, or improve efficiency.
Consulting is one of the fastest growing professions in the United States. According to the U.S. government, there were 719,000 consultants in the U.S. in 2010, and you can expect an additional 274,000 by 2020. Cloaked in "expert" status, consultants might seem to be the answer to many business...
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58. |  Tax Strategies for the Small Business Owner: Reduce Your Taxes and Fatten Your Profits By: Russell Fox Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 03-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 20-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tax Strategies for the Small Business Owner: Reduce Your Taxes and Fatten Your Profits
Tax Strategies for the Small Business Owner: Reduce Your Taxes and Fatten Your Profits will help the small business owner increase profits while feeling more comfortable dealing with taxes. It begins by looking at the often overlooked critical decision small business owners face when they start a business: the choice of business entity. The book then examines all the deductions that a business owner can take legally to reduce taxes. It also provides advice business owners need to make good tax-related decisions: Should I lease or buy? Should I hire an employee or outsource the task? How...
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59. |  Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2012 By: M. Casey Murdock Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 03-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 18-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2012
Tax Insight: For Tax Year 2012 will teach you to take control of life's biggest expense—taxes. In your lifetime, you will spend more money on taxes than on anything else. Despite that fact, you likely know the current prices of movies and milk but don't know what your marginal tax rate is. You know where to get the cheapest gallon of gas to save a buck or two, but you don't give a thought to the tax strategies you should be using right now that would save you thousands. Why? Is it too complicated and confusing? Too unpleasant? In Tax Insight, tax expert Casey Murdock opens up the world of...
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60. |  By: Dudley Storey Publisher: Apress Publication Date: 06-DEC-2012 Insert Date: 18-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pro CSS3 Animation
Pro CSS3 Animation will teach you how to use fresh new CSS3 syntax to fully utilize this exciting tool for web design. Using cutting-edge industry standards and drawing on best practices for animation, you will learn how to apply CSS3 animation to transform and bring your page content to life.
CSS3 is the way forward for web page interactivity and animation, offering new and exciting options for design. Integrated with HTML5, SVG and mobile design methodologies, you can bring sites into the third dimension to change the perception and appreciation generated in your audience. This book...
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